Steven Moran

List of John Benjamins publications in which Steven Moran is involved.

Silva, Carlos and Steven Moran 2025 Consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles Diachronica 42:1, pp. 82–117 | Article

Research on language stability typically departs from a sample of mother-daughter languages (e.g., Greenhill et al. 2017, Honeybone 2019, Moran et al. 2021). Instead, this study aims at measuring consonant stability (presence or absence of change) in Portuguese-based creoles. Our approach… read more

Sæbø, Lilja Maria, Eitan Grossman and Steven Moran 2025 Tonogenesis: A diachronic typology Diachrony of Tone, Auderset, Sandra, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann (eds.), pp. 451–478 | Article

This article presents the Database of Tonogenetic Events (DTE), which describes 259 tonogenetic events from 104 genealogically and geographically diverse language varieties. The DTE allows us to identify the main types of reported tonogenesis triggering contexts, the types of resultant tones,… read more

Moran, Steven 2014 Review of Wichmann & Grant (2012): Quantitative approaches to linguistic diversity: commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh Studies in Language 38:1, pp. 220–233 | Review

Boynton, Jessica, Steven Moran, Helen Aristar-Dry and Anthony Rodrigues Aristar 2010 Using the E-MELD School of Best Practices to create lasting digital documentation Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Article

The School of Best Practices is an online resource that describes how to create lasting digital documentation according to the standards developed by a community of linguists, archivists, and computer scientists. The School was developed as part of the NSF-sponsored E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure… read more